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CARNIVORA FISSIPEDIA. 



ington and Oregon are secured in the neighborhood of 

 Grey's Harbor, which shows that these animals seem to 

 have a preference for certain localities to the exclusion 

 of all other territory." 



Because of their quick hearing and acute smell Sea 

 Otters are hard to capture by shooting or clubbing, unless 

 there is a heavy gale from the north to drown the sounds 

 made bj 7 the approaching hunters. Some of the natives 

 spread nets over the kelp-beds where the Otters are in 

 the habit of sleeping, when the animals becoming par- 

 alyzed with fear as they find themselves entangled in the 

 meshes, fall an easy prey to the hunters. 



The Sea Otter furnishes one of the most valuable of 

 furs as a single skin will often sell for from one thousand 

 five hundred dollars to two thousand dollars, and the 

 average price of a season's catch is about five hundred dol- 

 lars per skin. 



SEA OTTER. 



